Latest news from space: three 'twin' (or almost, let's say similar) planets of Earth potentially capable of hosting life have just been identified. These are planets that they rotate around to a dwarf star cooler than Sun, called Trappist-1, which is located just 40 light years from us, in the constellation Aquarius.
The discovery is sensational, and was announced in Nature by a international group of astronomers led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics of the Belgian University of Liege. ”Thanks to giant telescopes which I currently am under construction we will be there soon able to study the composition of the atmosphere of these planets, in order to look for the presence of water and traces of biological activity. This is a huge one step forward in search for life in the universe,” say the researchers.
The three planets were observed thanks to the Belgian telescopetrappist', installed in Chile at the European Southern Observatory (Eso). Unfortunately these bodies, although close, cannot be reached from Earth with the current means at our disposal. Human colonization of others planets is though now considered an increasingly imminent possibility…
